Angry at the Right Things: How Suppressed Anger Leads to Depression and Illness - Bronwyn Schweigerdt

When Bronwyn Schweigerdt discovered that her severe depressive episodes were a result of repressed anger, it changed everything.  Bronwyn is a public speaker, author, podcaster and licensed psychotherapist.  You can listen to Bronwyn’s podcast Angry at the Right Things on all the usual podcast platforms.

Some of the highlights Bronwyn shares:

• Her experience of severe depression with unusual symptoms of extreme nausea and a voracious appetite
• Becoming a therapist to find answers to her own problems
• Discovering that repressed anger can cause depression, anxiety, and other mental and emotional issues
• It's okay to feel anger - it's neither good nor bad - it just is
• Learning how to channel anger out of our body in healthy ways
• Assertiveness, creating boundaries, demanding accountability, and documenting are all ways to appropriately respond to feelings of anger
• We are not responsible for other people's feelings (and they're not responsible for ours)
• Just because I can't see anger, doesn't mean it isn't real
• Somatic symptoms of repressed anger
• We often misdirect our anger towards innocent people - it's important to be angry at the right things
• Our emotions affect our physical bodies
• How to deal with unsafe people
• Advocating for ourselves
• Noticing patterns
• Emotions are e-motions - they are energy in motion - they are designed to make us move
• Strong emotions like anger are like a light on the dashboard of a car - it lets us know we need to check under the hood - something needs to be repaired
• According to Bronwyn, shame is not an emotion, it's a social construct and does not serve us
• How shame debilitates us and makes us stuck
• Don't judge our feelings
• We need to heal our relationship with anger
• What do you need right now?
• And more  

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